Endoscope apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorYu YOSHIMORI
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Abstract
A position specifying section obtains an observation distance by specifying the position of an irradiated region from a picked-up image that is obtained from the image pickup of a subject on which the irradiated region is formed by auxiliary measurement light. An image processing section sets the amount of offset, which corresponds to a height of the irradiated region of a convex portion of the subject, for the observation distance, and generates an offset measurement marker on the basis of the offset distance that obtained by adding the amount of offset to the observation distance. A specific image in which the offset measurement marker is superimposed on the picked-up image is displayed on a display unit.
Claims10
An endoscope apparatus comprising:
- an illumination light source unit that emits illumination light used to illuminate a subject;
- an auxiliary measurement light source unit that emits auxiliary measurement light;
- an image acquisition unit that acquires a picked-up image obtained from image pickup of the subject which is illuminated with the illumination light and on which an irradiated region is formed by the auxiliary measurement light;
- a position specifying section that specifies a position of the irradiated region from the picked-up image;
- a distance calculation section that obtains an observation distance, which is a distance between an endoscope-distal end part and the subject, from the position of the irradiated region;
- an offset setting section that sets an amount of offset, which corresponds to a height of the irradiated region of a convex portion, for the observation distance;
- an offset distance-calculation section that calculates an offset distance by adding the amount of offset to the observation distance;
- an offset measurement marker-generation section that generates an offset measurement marker on the basis of the offset distance;
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- a display control unit that displays a specific image in which the offset measurement marker is superimposed on the picked-up image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.